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Emergence in Japan of an HIV-1 variant associated with transmission among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China: first indication of the International Dissemination of the Chinese MSM lineage.
Journal of virology - 1 May 2013
Kondo Makiko, Lemey Philippe, Sano Takako, Itoda Ichiro, Yoshimura Yukihiro, Sagara Hiroko, Tachikawa Natsuo, Yamanaka Ko, Iwamuro Shinya, Matano Tetsuro, Imai Mitsunobu, Kato Shingo, Takebe Yutaka
Abstract excerpt
A survey of HIV-1 strains circulating in the Tokyo-Kanagawa metropolitan area of Japan during 2004 to 2011 (n = 477) identified six Japanese males (patients 1 to 6), who harbored viruses with genome segments derived from a distinct CRF01_AE variant uniquely found among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China (designated CN.MSM.01-1). These six HIV infections were diagnosed in 2010 and 2011 among MSM (3 of 75)...
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